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Udemy: Five Tips for Saving Money in 2013
Saving money seems to be on everyone’s mind these days, whether cutting back on lunches or turning the shampoo bottle upside down to salvage one more shampoo out of those last few drops. Having this extended “recession” impacting everyone in one way or another, whether worrying about keeping or getting a job, or managing today’s household budget on an income stuck in “yesteryear’s” salary, means a greater awareness of saving money whenever possible. Fortunately there are many tips for saving... Continue reading »…
Saylor.org: A Case Study in Obstacles to and Strategies for Negotiating the Relicensing of Third-Party Content
Over the past four years, the Saylor Foundation has developed over 300* college level courses, made up of nearly 28,000 educational objects (essays, textbooks, videos, assessments, etc.). Initially, our goal was to use the wide breadth of resources available online to build these courses. We encouraged the use of openly licensed and public domain materials, [...]…
: CCBM by IIT-D is Awarded for Being Tech-Savvy
The ASSOCHAM (Associate Chamber of Commerce and Industry of India) awarded IIT Delhi’s CCBM course conducted on WizIQ as the Best Use of Technology for Vocational Education and Skills Training. This award was given in the National Education Excellence Award 2013 ceremony held in New Delhi on April 9, 2013.… Read the rest…
Coursera: A Pilot Translation Collaboration with Digital October in Russia
Coursera’s mission is “learning without limits by connecting the world to a great education.” One way we are accomplishing this goal is by making select course lectures subtitles available in different languages. Since January 2013, Coursera has received more than 1.1 million unique visitors from Russia, and today, we’re excited to announce a collaboration pilot with Digital October, a center for new technology and entrepreneurship located in the heart of Moscow. We’ll be working with Digital October to bring more courses to Russian-speaking students, starting with University of Pennsylvania’s popular course on Gamification, taught by Kevin Werbach. The Digital October team has already begun translating subtitles for this course. They will also translate a talk that Kevin Werbach is giving today called the “Shall We Play,” available on KnowledgeStream, an online distance-learning initiative run by Digital October. You can w…
Udemy: How to negotiate a raise or promotion
In late 2010 Google did something pretty stunning. They announced to their 25,000 employees worldwide that effective January 1, 2011, every single one of them — no matter what their job title was, no matter what department they were in, no matter how good or bad their on-the-job performance was — would automatically receive a 10% raise and a $1,000 bonus. Google even paid the taxes on the bonuses so workers would get the full $1,000. Happy New Year. Raise... Continue reading »…
Udemy: Best DJ Software: Traktor, Serato, or Ableton Live?
There are dozens of DJ softwares on the market: Traktor, Serato Scratch Live, Serato Itch, Serato DJ, Ableton Live, Virtual DJ, Algoriddim and more. It can be hard when you’re starting out as a DJ to know which is the best software to use, but once you have been DJing for a while, the choices become easier to make. Here we have laid out the pros and cons to the best DJ software on the market that we at Spin... Continue reading »…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Marc My Words: Practice Makes Mastery by Marc J. Rosenberg
How do people become high performers? Here are three ideas from one of the keynote speakers at last month’s eLearning Guild Learning Solutions Conference. Plant these ideas into your programs and watch your learners grow!
Learning Solutions Magazine: Build a Dream Team for Your eLearning Project by Steven Loomis
Do you long to have an eLearning Dream Team for your development projects? Because of the mix of skills and experience available to you, this may be a tall order to fill, so what can you do? The ideal and the real are often far apart, but here is an analysis to help you use the staff talent you have.
: A New Ambassador to WizIQ
Guess who has just joined the team of ambassadors at WizIQ? The brainchild behind the Weekly English Workout (WEW) on WizIQ, Mr. Fluency MC, Jason R. Levine, has joined as the platform ambassador to WizIQ. The weekly English workouts (see Facebook page) are bringing joy to many families around the world as they practice their English language skills.… Read the rest…
Saylor.org: We Love Resources: 19 Computing Apps from m.r.androids
If you want to learn a little about a lot and fast, you could do worse than these nineteen free apps from m.r.androids. It’s like the perfect nexus for us: technology! mobile! online! learning! open! Open? Yep. The content of these lightweight quiz apps is licensed CC BY 3.0. I heard about these from David Rose, [...]…
Saylor.org: Snapshot: Scott Movens, Bread Artisan/Tech Extraordinaire
Next in our line-up of Staff Snapshots is our Strategic Technical Associate, Scott Movens! Hello Scott. Hi. So let’s begin, please tell us a little bit about yourself. Sure thing! I’m originally from Cleveland, Ohio, which is actually a pretty awesome place despite what everyone thinks. No, I don’t care too much that Lebron James [...]…
Learning Solutions Magazine: Learning Is Not Enough: The Behavior Framework by Nic Laycock
Being competent is only the start of high performance. Aristotle reminds us, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." The journey to excellence requires specific behaviors and values. Here is the story of the approach taken in a school in Hong Kong, and insights for your eLearning designs!
Learning Solutions Magazine: EMEA Reporter: Learning Is Not Enough: The Behavior Framework by Nic Laycock
Being competent is only the start of high performance. Aristotle reminds us, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." The journey to excellence requires specific behaviors and values. Here is the story of the approach taken in a school in Hong Kong, and insights for your eLearning designs!
Saylor.org: Ninja Skills: So stealthy, it
You may have noticed (or not) that we skipped the Ninja Skills lesson this week. A shame, because I was going to tell you all about how to use the weird course outline thing on our courses. Next week, yeah? I was busy playing with a press release about how seven schools will give you [...]…
Saylor.org: Colorado Technical University: Identifying the Right Degree Program
This post is by Dr. Emad Rahim of Colorado Technical University, a new partner in our College Credit Pathways initiative, and coincides with the Saylor Foundation’s press release on guaranteed transfer credits for several of our courses.* It can be a difficult decision trying to figure out which degree program and University to transfer your credits [...]…
Udemy: Freelance Copywriter Career: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started
As a freelance copywriter, I’m often asked by would-be writers: What do freelance copywriters really do? How does it differ from creative writing – novels, poetry and so on? What is the upside, and what is the downside? How much realistically could I make? What is the most profitable kind of writing? How do I find projects? So, that’s what I’m going to share with you right now – and I’m going to be brutally honest. 1. What do we... Continue reading »…
edX: Stanford and edX Collaborate on Open Source edX Platform
By Anant Agarwal When we launched edX with Harvard and MIT, one of our core beliefs was that the online learning platform we were building should be freely available to students and institutions everywhere. This belief went beyond the open access typical of massively open online courses (MOOCs). Not only did we believe our courses should be freely available, we wanted the platform technology itself to be open sourced and available to all. Today, we are realizing this vision as we announce that the entire edX learning platform will be released as open source on June 1, 2013. The release will include the learning platform; edX Studio, our course authoring tool; edX101, an online course on how to teach an online course on edX; and assessment tools, such as our peer grader and our AI grader based on machine learning. We believe that drawing upon the global community of developers will be the most effective way to rapidly evolve the platform to deliver the best quality and most…
Saylor.org: Release: Guaranteed Transfer Credit for Students of Free Online Courses
Good news for a Wednesday morning — today we announced agreements with seven colleges and universities to guarantee credit for three of our courses. More schools and more courses are on the way in 2013. Read the release here, and please do share!
: Create a Slideshow that Rocks Your Students
Some classes are about conveying information. Other classes are about rocking your students’ world. These are some tools to rock Until recently, when a professor wanted to engage his audience, he reviewed and refined his lectures till they were funny, dramatic, and factually correct.… Read the rest…
Udemy: Piano Improvisation: How Anyone Can Start Improvising Today
When neuroscientist Charles Limb asked freestyle rappers to spontaneously generate rhymes to the accompaniment of a rhythmic beat while they were lying in an uncomfortable, huge functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Scanner, he was looking for measurable brain activities that hopefully could explain something like the neurological basis of creativity. Music and Creativity in the fMRI Scanner: Astonishing Findings The findings he got were astonishing but they were comparable with the results of other similar experiments, where Jazz pianists had... Continue reading »…